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PAN CLASSICS<br />
Oboe Concertos<br />
Virtuoso Oboe Concerti from the Mannheim School<br />
Ludwig August Lebrun (1752-1790): Concerto No. 7 in F major<br />
Ignaz Holzbauer (1711-1783) Concerto in D minor<br />
Peter von Winter (1754-1825): Concerto No. 2 in F major<br />
Ernst Eichner (1740-1777): Concerto in C major<br />
Kurt Meier, oboe<br />
Northern Sinfonia<br />
Howard Griffiths, conductor<br />
PC 10088<br />
CD<br />
(digipak)<br />
PC: 01Q<br />
7 619990 100886<br />
Mannheim was once for a few years an artistic eldorado. As Christian Daniel Friedrich Schubart<br />
wrote in his “Thoughts on the Esthetic of <strong>Music</strong>”: “No orchestra in the world can surpass that of<br />
Mannheim. Its forte is like thunder, its crescendo like a waterfall, its diminuendo – a crystal river<br />
murmuring in the distance, its piano a breath of spring.” Charles Burney praised not only its “good<br />
discipline”, but remarked also that this admirable ensemble was a unique collection of highly<br />
qualified individuals: “There are truly more solo performers and good composers in this orchestra<br />
than in perhaps any other orchestra in Europe. It is an army of generals, as capable of designing a<br />
plan for a battle as of fighting it.”<br />
The four representatives of Mannheim School to be heard on this CD were all musical “generals”,<br />
solo performers and composers. What they have in common is not only the perfect mastery of that<br />
exemplary musical style, but also the typically Mannheim preference for solo woodwind<br />
instruments. Besides the flute above all the oboe was a particular favourite in Mannheim.<br />
According to Schubart it was in Mannheim that the Oboe became a valuable solo instrument.
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